Beware of Joining a Clinical Trial - Medical Research Must Come Clean

From time to time, friends, patients and relatives ask my advice on participating in a medical experiment. My response has been no. More accurately, once I explain to them the realities of research, they don’t need to be persuaded. They back away.

Here’s the key point. When an individual volunteers to join a research project, the medical study is not designed to benefit the individual patient. This point is sorely misunderstood by patients and their families who understandably will